This artefact has influenced my ideas for my final major project in a big way. We have so much at our disposal with the Coventry blaze. They have won many awards and competitions, and they have won the league many times. If you say a date that the Blaze won the league to a fan, there collective memory of that year will be the Blaze winning that event. We can work with this and create a documentary on the history of the Blaze.
We are in close contact with Blaze’s photographer, and he has many photographs from past events that the blaze has won. He has been there photographer for many years, I believe since they started. He has thousands of pictures. If we can get access to these photographs, we could create a moving piece using the dates of the events, and photographs. It could create emotions from the audience, about the Blaze’s past, it could stir up memories from there imaginary museum that I talked about, and using the images of photography that we can access, it could be something quite powerful.
The piece could have very slow edits, making it more powerful. There could be a voice over explaining the games, or what event was what. Or we could see if we could get any archive of the commentary from the games that the BBC reporter Jeff Foster has. He has been with doing the Blaze now for 8 years; he may have some audio recording we could use. We could capture some of the commentary with images, converging different media forms together to create something that could stir up many emotions from the fans. We could use graphics as well, changing around the photographs so they are not standard, so they look creative, using photoshop. This is a skill I would like to expand, so doing something which could mean I could expand my skills on photoshop which would be good.
Using collective memory could mean we could bring together a lot of archive footage that the club has, and make something that will make the audience remember what the club and team used to be like, remembering old players and old kits. This could be something that is nice for the fans that have been with the club for a long time. These sorts of videos could be nice to be put on the end of season DVD as extra bonus features; I don’t think this would work very well on YouTube. Something like that would be good for a DVD, as it is something that the fans will buy and appreciate more. Plus if we are using the clubs old footage I am sure they would rather it be put on a DVD instead of the on the channel.
I like how in my artefact the audio works so well with it. If I was to produce a video with the same feel to it, the audio will need to be in similar style to this, if I wanted the piece to be slow and stir up emotions within the audience. It would be targeted at the fans, as someone who is not a fan of the Blaze will not appreciate the sentiment of the video nor the memories that it conjures up.
